Great story about a heroine librarian, attacked by book-banning parents she thought were friends. “The crazy thing about this case is they get to wave the freedom of speech flag in the lawsuit, but what started all this is they want to ban books,” said Jones’s lawyer www.nytimes.com/2024/09/03/b... - ThreadSky

jenster.bsky.social • 173 days ago

Great story about a heroine librarian, attacked by book-banning parents she thought were friends. “The crazy thing about this case is they get to wave the freedom of speech flag in the lawsuit, but what started all this is they want to ban books,” said Jones’s lawyer https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/03/books/amanda-jones-librarian-book-bans.html?unlocked_article_code=1.H04.ilxA.3fYCBpDvnYHZ

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pinkprincess.bsky.social•172 days ago

The danger facing libraries and librarians, let alone all that are in cultural heritage, is all too real.
The vitrol and the hate that book banners and "preservers of decency" have is indescribable.
They have made it clear that they have no qualms to do whatever they want, if ever given the chance.

savagewhit.bsky.social•173 days ago

Boom

brittexkavi.bsky.social•173 days ago

Imagine waking up & deciding to make an active choice to bully a school librarian, as an adult no less. My school librarian was 1 of 3 adults who provided me with a safe space in my extremely racist district. I’m not sure I would have made it w/out them & my library in general.

sharoncstorm.bsky.social•173 days ago

I’m glad you had a safe space, I hate that you needed one.

brittexkavi.bsky.social•173 days ago

Thank you. ❤️

rowleyjohnuk.bsky.social•173 days ago

Ok superb article but like race and racist books particularly being removed and LGBTQ etc, wow now we going back to the middle ages or before, colonialism, slavery, oppression of women, white middle aged patriarchy. Now we seem to be going Neanderthal or Cro Magnon in the 21st century.

sanmei.bsky.social•173 days ago

Try the 1960s, well within the memory of a lot of politicians who keep telling us they want to "make America great again."

Donald Trump was a legal adult before the Civil Rights Act became law.

They're not taking us back to a bygone era of antiquity. They're talking about their childhoods.

saddragon18.bsky.social•169 days ago

They want to go back to the days where anyone who didn't align with white,straight, "Christian" American values were silenced it's so odd how anyone would want to go back to a time period like that.

sanmei.bsky.social•169 days ago

The one that blows my mind is how many blue-collar workers they've convinced should love police and hate unions. My dudes, this is not in your class interest. This is explicitly anti-YOU.

saddragon18.bsky.social•169 days ago

That's the sad part I've talked to my Mom about this as well and she agrees it's really fucking sad how they've brainwashed mostly blue collar workers coming from someone that lives in a mostly blue collar community

sanmei.bsky.social•173 days ago

Women garnered the right to wear pants in Congress in the 1990s. Interracial marriage became accepted by more than 50% of the country in the 90s. Women couldn't apply for their own credit card without a male co-signer until 1974.

Civil rights in the US aren't that old, folks.

extectic.bsky.social•171 days ago

Really highlights how bugf-ck insane the right wing and the crazed zealots are in America now. It's like watching a modern variant of Nazi Germany with society backsliding in real time, except with the most bloated military in human history.

geezerdeluxe.bsky.social•173 days ago

Unrelenting attacks on this poor girl’s life, and the courts are protecting the abusers. This doesn’t look like my country. This weird conflation of honest sexual portrayal with pornography has to stop.

badassunicorn.bsky.social•172 days ago

Liberi Defensatrix! ✊📚

unhipcat.bsky.social•173 days ago

I’m confused. Again.
Banning books is now freedom of speech?
I’m confused.

8tacocat8.bsky.social•173 days ago

If that confuses you, never read "1984".

"War is peace"
"Freedom is slavery"
"Ignorance is strength"
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them"
"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words"

unhipcat.bsky.social•173 days ago

started recently and put it down because it felt a little too real. Will pick it up again shortly.

8tacocat8.bsky.social•172 days ago

That's what makes it such a poignant work.
And it was published in 1949!

grant-at-galena.bsky.social•173 days ago

The right loves playing games with language. Especially subverting the language of social justice.

schoeppner.bsky.social•173 days ago

Reminds me of a book a colleague of mine wrote about a Quaker librarian during the McCarthy era

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498569415/McCarthyism-in-the-Suburbs-Quakers-Communists-and-the-Childrens-Librarian

mdpoppa.bsky.social•172 days ago

love this

red1r.bsky.social•172 days ago

Maybe someone needs to go talk to Michael Lunsford. You know, just talk.

pyslexicdharmacist.bsky.social•172 days ago

Jfc, accusing someone of molesting children is not "expressing an opinion." It's either true or it's a lie, and if it's a lie, it's defamation.

sinurata.bsky.social•171 days ago

American freedom of speech laws are literally insane.

lizamazel.bsky.social•173 days ago

and this is the kind of NYT article that makes you think, well, shit, they DO provide value...

just, well.

seize the means of production, journos. it's the only way.

waterloo45.bsky.social•173 days ago

People that can't read fear books

kazreviews.bsky.social•173 days ago

The hypocrisy here is peak.

candvbeans.bsky.social•171 days ago

Chilling how there appears to be a steadily growing march of closed-minded people who casually destroy the well-being of those whose views they object to by spewing vicious threats

Brave woman for standing against this!

ashishkabob.bsky.social•172 days ago

⭐️

jstora.bsky.social•171 days ago

Incredibly sad that humans have not evolved to treat each other with basic respect. While related violence has been criminalized in modern society, the behavior that falls between civil or criminal repercussions still destroys lives. I'm hoping she and other librarians prevail.

goodstuffjoe.bsky.social•171 days ago

MORE people like this!!

gmcgee.bsky.social•172 days ago

Fuck them people! If they don’t like certain books! Then those dumb ass don’t have to read them! Here comes Hitler! They just want to destroy all books that they don’t agree with! I can’t remember when adults were not such cray babies.

otakucho.bsky.social•173 days ago

What is wrong? Banned what's next burning? This scares me. Bunch of Moms that could be doing something about violence against schools and children.

jasmine29.bsky.social•172 days ago

We're living in a mirror world.🥺 A library is a place where I feel truly safe.

baileyjones.bsky.social•173 days ago

Can't read as behind a pay wall and as living in the UK I don't feel the need to subscribe to the NY Times. Sounds really interesting though.

micheal2.bsky.social•173 days ago

True

jenster.bsky.social•173 days ago

It is a gift article, so that’s weird.

snowthistle.bsky.social•173 days ago

Strange - I'm in the UK and I managed to read it once. When I tried to go back an open it again I hit the paywall but not the first time I opened it

baileyjones.bsky.social•173 days ago

I got in this morning. Although it seemed to be a barrier, the subscribe banner could be bypassed if I scrolled down the article.
That poor librarian. Such a hateful pile on.

snowthistle.bsky.social•172 days ago

Yep, it's shocking what's happened to her

baileyjones.bsky.social•173 days ago

I'll try again.

justinsanity99.bsky.social•172 days ago

It's all so horrible, what's happening in those US communities, but heartening these heroic librarians who are fighting back!
I salute them!

davidnbull.bsky.social•173 days ago

Hurrah for librarians! I married one - they are the best, and play such a vital role in the life of our society. So sad that financial pressures are leading to closure of so may libraries in the UK.

dankine.bsky.social•172 days ago

You mean theft and mismanagement by the tories?

davidnbull.bsky.social•172 days ago

I mean financial pressures on the local authorities that run the libraries - caused by huge budget cuts made by the previous Government. So, yes, you could say that.

spikesyndrome.bsky.social•173 days ago

Thank you for the gift article. It’s all so disturbing.

gubaba.bsky.social•172 days ago

No matter what you do, you can't stop kids from writing the page numbers of the "hot parts" of Forever on the first page.

phd-rn5.bsky.social•172 days ago

I remember when a former friend had a fit about Madona’s book being in the library. Dear god.
Do those pple ever read the Bible? It’s just full of fornicators & Jezebels. 😈

midnightmasseffect.bsky.social•173 days ago

the new york times creating their own news to report on lol

"the book bans we've helped cause are affecting people!"

armada14.bsky.social•172 days ago

Cool story. An interesting freedom-of-speech argument going on there.

chicchick.bsky.social•172 days ago

What about the Author’s freedom of responsible speech because freedom of speech caries responsibility on both sides, can’t have it for one side and not the other.

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